Because I grew tired of the isEmpty ifTrue: [ ] all over the place.
And ifEmpty has the right semantics for my use cases (like assignment).

I do not really care about portability, I am doing Pharo only.

Phil

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:30 PM, jtuchel@objektfabrik.de <jtuchel@objektfabrik.de> wrote:
Am 31.10.16 um 15:59 schrieb phil@highoctane.be:
but you should use myCollection ifEmpty: [ ... ]

interesting. Why do you think so? what if you wanted your code to be portable across Smalltalk dialects?








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